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50 free Maleficent trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Maleficent reached theaters on May 30, 2014, retelling Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty from the point of view of its horned villain. Angelina Jolie took the title role and an executive-producer credit, Robert Stromberg made his directing debut after winning production-design Oscars for Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, and Linda Woolverton's script went through at least fifteen drafts before the cameras rolled at Pinewood Studios. The result split critics but grossed more than $758 million, the fourth-biggest film of the year, and earned an Oscar nomination for its costumes. This quiz covers the story (the iron bracelet, the three pixies, the curse and the kiss that finally breaks it), the cast (Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Sam Riley and the Jolie children on set), the long development from a 2003 animated pitch through Tim Burton's involvement, the cut scenes with Miranda Richardson and Peter Capaldi, the Lana Del Rey cover of Once Upon a Dream, and the box-office and home-video numbers. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play in sets of ten or print it out for a Disney night.
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Q 01Who plays the title role?
Angelina Jolie
She was the first and only choice; producers said the film would not have been made without her.
Q 02Who directed the film, in his directorial debut?
Robert Stromberg
He had won production-design Oscars for Avatar and Alice in Wonderland before stepping up to direct.
Q 03Who wrote the screenplay?
Linda Woolverton
She had just written Alice in Wonderland for Tim Burton when she was approached in 2009.
Q 04Which director was originally attached before dropping out?
Tim Burton
He withdrew by May 2011 because of his commitment to Dark Shadows.
Q 05Where was principal photography based?
Pinewood Studios
Some location work was done in the Buckinghamshire countryside near Turville.
Q 06Where did the film premiere on May 28, 2014?
El Capitan Theatre
The Hollywood cinema is Disney-owned and two days later the film opened wide.
Q 07For which category was the film nominated at the 87th Academy Awards?
Best Costume Design
Anna B. Sheppard's team hand-made more than two thousand costumes in about eight weeks.
Q 08What is the name of the magical forest realm Maleficent protects?
The Moors
Earlier drafts gave the realm a fairy king and queen, Maleficent's aunt and uncle, who were cut from the film.
Q 09What metal, lethal to fairies, does Stefan use to burn off Maleficent's wings?
Iron
He later mass-produces weapons of the same metal in his obsession with killing her.
Q 10Diaval, Maleficent's shape-shifting servant, is what kind of bird?
A raven
She turns him human to save him from a farmer, and later into a dragon for the castle battle.
Q 11Who plays Diaval?
Sam Riley
Jim Sturgess and Gael García Bernal had been reported as trying out for the part.
Q 12Who plays King Stefan?
Sharlto Copley
Jude Law, Jolie's Sky Captain co-star, had been in negotiations for the role first.
Q 13Who plays Aurora?
Elle Fanning
She was the filmmakers' only choice after they saw her in Super 8.
Q 14Which earlier film persuaded producers to cast Fanning as Aurora?
Q 21Who is revealed to be the film's narrator?
The elderly Aurora
Janet McTeer voices her.
Q 22Who plays Prince Philip?
Brenton Thwaites
Scheduling conflicts kept him from the sequel, where Harris Dickinson took over.
Q 23In which year was the idea first pitched to Disney, as an animated project?
2003
Don Hahn brought it to the animation department, inspired by the just-opened musical Wicked.
Q 24Which Broadway musical inspired the timing of the original pitch?
Super 8
Joe Roth said he brought her to the studio literally the next day and she said 'I'm in'.
Q 15What are the names of the three pixies?
Knotgrass, Flittle and Thistlewit
The 1959 film's fairies were Flora, Fauna and Merryweather; the remake renamed and demoted them to comic relief.
Q 16Which actress plays the bossy pixie Knotgrass?
Imelda Staunton
Staunton called her the most important pixie, in her own head.
Q 17Before which birthday is Aurora cursed to prick her finger?
16th
Stefan hides her in a forest cottage until the deadline passes, but the curse takes hold the night she returns.
Q 18Whose kiss finally breaks the curse?
Maleficent's
Philip's kiss fails; the maternal kiss on Aurora's forehead is the true love's kiss.
Q 19What creature does Maleficent turn Diaval into during the castle battle?
A dragon
In the 1959 animation it was Maleficent herself who became the dragon.
Q 20How does Stefan die?
He falls from the tower
Maleficent had refused to kill him and tried to end the fight peacefully before he attacked again.
Wicked
Both stories reframe a famous villain as a misunderstood protagonist.
Q 25Producer Sean Bailey likened his take on the story to which Godfather character?
Michael Corleone
He wanted a character to do something empirically terrible, curse a child, and still win sympathy.
Q 26Which film commitment made the original director withdraw in May 2011?
Dark Shadows
He had earlier paused the project for Sweeney Todd and Alice too.
Q 27Stromberg designed which film before being given Maleficent to direct?
Oz the Great and Powerful
Disney asked him to design Oz first, then promised him a film to direct.
Q 28At least how many versions did the screenplay go through?
15
Paul Dini also did rewrites and was credited in early press.
Q 29Miranda Richardson and Peter Capaldi shot scenes as which characters, all cut from the film?
Queen Ulla and King Kinloch
Their fairy king and queen went when more than 15 minutes were trimmed from the first act.
Q 30Roughly how much did Jolie earn for the role?
$33 million
It made her the highest-paid actress of 2013.